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[Charlie]

I think
 > languages will slowly converge into one universal language being made up
 > primarily of English (although its name may change).

My bets on chinese ;).

janderson wrote:
> Falk-Florian Henrich wrote:
>> Am Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:16:08 -0700 schrieb janderson:
>>
>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> Personally I don't think D is anywhere near the threshold of having to
>>> much.  Take a look at the most successful langugage (English), it keeps
>>> getting bigger and bigger every day.  We just don't have enough syntax
>>> to describe everything.
>>
>> Without discussing what "successful" is supposed to mean in the realm 
>> of natural languages, I think the syntax of English is shrinking 
>> rather than growing. Plus, today's lingua franca is a tiny subset of 
>> English with a type discipline comparable to that of K&R C.
>>
>> Apart from that, I agree with you that D's syntax is a lot easier to 
>> understand than that of C++.
>>
>> Falk
> 
> By successful I mean most widely used, which is what we want D to become.
> 
> I guess, once a word is added to the English language it doesn't go away 
>  easily.  English reached the 1-million mark last year.  I've heard that 
> most people stick to around 2000 world in their everyday speak.  I think 
> languages will slowly converge into one universal language being made up 
> primarily of English (although its name may change).
> 
> I think programming languages and file formats will be one of the 
> biggest driving forces behind this.  Since most people want technology 
> and much of it is English at some level.
> 
> http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/language.html
> 
> -Joel